today on larry king now it's lisa goudreau the emmy winner is branching out on her own with not one but sued t.v. shows on the star studded line of over hit series web therapy well if someone makes the mistake of saying oh i've seen live and i like it then i hunt them down on moving beyond friends oh well we cry you know the whole time i mean that whole last episode of this almost impossible to get rid of plus i take i took myself so seriously that they thought great if they can light me up maybe then she has been so all ahead on larry king now. best known as the light hearted and carefree phoebe on the hit sitcom friends lisa

kudrow but is the creator producer writer and star of her own online and cable series called web sarah p. it's now in its third year on showtime it airs tuesdays at eleven pm and she's the jet producer of the celebrity genealogy series who do you think you are on t.l.c. also on tuesdays at nine eastern eight central you control to use this is that your object he had to go both tuesday nights. how did that work that just happened right it just happened you know before we get good nothing like phoebe where you went to vassar to you couldn't d.c. . not when that whole friends thing started we had the whole cast on see it. did you ever think that it would be even a hit oh no when it started you know no i thought it was just you know one of many many pilots that don't see the light of day and then even if they ordered six episodes that might be as much as it as a cast because it doesn't matter if it's good or not you know. well i do work

though i think it worked well really good writing and good chemistry amongst the actors i think that's why do you like being seedy yes i did it was because it lightened me up that's why it really lightened be up and maybe. yeah life's a lot easier and i played a lot of dumb girls before that you know but not for ten years straight but life is a lot easier you know when you don't. think this is the case to be ignored but it does it's a healthy or is that the part you you tried out for yes sometimes they switch things with you doing pilot right now i tried out for that and i even thought why feel more like i'm rachel green you know that like jewish american princess i mean i feel like that's more maybe like i'm aware of the whole like ross rachael thing i was just like the character and i called them up and said don't you think maybe and they would know we found a phoebe that was hard your loans are like it's fun when you with something for so

long to close of the chapters and then years to insisting yeah oh well we cried you know the whole time i mean that whole last episode was almost impossible to get through it was the most watched show of the year you know well was it probably and it's still playing everywhere right yeah that's good to still make good money yeah i mean it yes. now tom all asked to do web therapy and do you think you are which i want to move to know. by the way is on a successful sitcom or anything is on the pages of it as it's written yet for friends i think so but then also i think it's you know what the actors bring to it . well there you have to enhance it first it's it's there well here they allow you to change change scripts we were allowed to pitch jokes during rehearsals yeah sure yeah we do it their way first so they could see it and then we could pitch other stuff tell me about webster p.

you produce that show right we crew don roosts dan does it in scan i created web therapy so and that's an improvised show so explain that so we write an outline you know with the stories in the care you know for the characters and the story points and then when you know the actors we just improvise and you know don will let us roll for like twenty minutes and we go all over the place and try to hit the different ten you are see on the right i play fiona wallace she's very manipulative and judge mental dismissive like you know everything a therapist should not be judged based on anyone you know no i didn't actually she have any redeeming qualities. well i think. that's a great while i kind of am interested anyway in people who are completely unapologetic about their agenda or how bad they are you know. thinking

that they're coming off a certain way and they're not at all but you know she's very unapologetic about but it's what i want so i don't understand why you're not doing it you know that makes me you're one of the producers of it right so yeah did you all come together on this how to do the genesis well you know we were asked if we wanted to do a web series and the answer was no but i kept because they were mostly failed pilots say you know get chopped up into five minute minutes and put on the internet that's like two thousand and seven you know or before but i kept thinking about it and i just thought you know what the internet that's the thing you would have to like hi it should be about the internet somehow if it's on the internet i think and you know it's funny how people are getting stuff done on the internet like country and so many things well entertainment is one thing but you know they're trying to find dates and you know husbands wives and there's certain personal stuff so what's

more personal than fair p. that's just the worst idea in the world to do fairplay on line and then because the thought was everyone's attention span is really short so i thought ok three minute therapy sessions whole areas and because it's the internet and completely unregulated anyone can just say i do this i provide a service are you enjoying doing it oh yeah oh it's the most fun and you win it right yeah so we're improvising it and it's really fun i mean when an actor comes on they're not there more than a half a day so you know what we have telling like you don't we are doing you see what we will say like for example you know we're talking to meg ryan and like so we have this we want to do a hoarder you know person who's a hoarder and obsessed with fiona's has strange has been kept and and she said that sounds really fun and we showed her you know the story points and you know but then she adds to it she says i think she should be a really happy hoarder and doesn't even acknowledge that she's

a hoarder you know she call. herself an archivist she's a million dorsey how do you as the surplus help her well i'm actually there for personal reasons because she has something of my husband's that she bought on all day and i want to get it but then i also you know i i drug her. to see her every i don't anything so i end of drugging her in like a mild coma which fiona says is you know the cause of what your condition is sort of like a brain injury i decided and i guess sometimes they do so like coma so i did that and you're welcome do you break up of doing this yes most recently draws our guests lisa webb there be an enormous hit it was online and now it's on showtime i heard you make that transition what did you make of the transition well showtime thought that it would work you know on their network thank god and but it needed to be a half hour so we you know as a web series each character has three sessions and we thought great will just put

those together and that'll be a half hour but every longest any of them once was seventeen minutes so we all thought was a great idea but we forgot to do math you'd never physically as i understand it in the same room as the actors right now on the right right we're on the same sound stage or in different sets meryl streep has done this yeah that was really fun how do you get to guest stars well if someone makes the mistake of saying oh i've seen what therapy and i like it then i tracked them down i just i hunt them down what was it like to work with meryl streep who has played every role as well as the war children as she played every role of ever i know how was she on this fantastic what was her dilemma so while she also she was there not as a client but she was a gay conversion therapy just beyond as husband likes you know men but he was running for congress and that's not allowed so his backers made him visit this

clinic. it's been run and she was again conversion therapist do you do you take part you play you sit down the three of you devise what this is going to be we do but john roos came up with he comes up with a lot of them you know you have steve carell meg ryan billy crystal chelsea handler and met matt le blanc you're all from yeah what are you what what was his problem he actually did have a problem he was. online poker so getting ambling problem in his life is threatening an intervention and he thought this will be easier i could tell arm in therapy but not really does it ever get serious. no. no no no i would be crazy that would be awful words what is this steve carell character steve corral is is a little romance that fiona had when she needed a own good rest and laguna met him at the hotel and so they had one night which she

was happy that it was only one night goodbye but he seems like he's sticking around when the i just says no come on and do it. when do they learn what the shtick is going to be. usually saying hey come up with it no well sometimes it depends if like someone like steve carell said he would do it and then it was figuring out the schedule and then he was busy so we came up with something and we pitched it to him and he said yeah that's fine. just as simple as that yeah and then with other people you know we actually we had made whitman and darren criss who they're on this season and they're fantastic and they had this idea that there are. lovers they've been in a relationship for two years but have never been in the same room it's been online only oem so bare and they're young so it seems like work there right and it was there was really fun is there a particular episode guillotines told to coming out well i mean look i love

everything with lily tomlin because louis tomlin plays on his mother so it's the best stats near the end i'm really looking forward to that chelsea handler oh my god she's because she was hilarious she played with her problem so she's a it's not a she wasn't a problem she was fiona's first husband. had the surgery. and honors isn't seems you know yeah the fiona character the this might lead to her own talk so to do so why not that's a really funny one there's nothing tuesday night is seven that's why we have eight we have nine. seven or ten dr p. only like dr drew dr phil right herding people as he goes oh ming people yeah i heard the menace his own twitter account yeah fiona has a twitter account yes dr fiona it's at dr fiona wallace is it easier to be fiona

than lisa. and i'm sometimes running d. is yeah you like the feeling right you like her well i think she's horrible she makes me laugh but sometimes i have to say some of those ideas are mine like sometimes there is a little bit of a you know i get to say it as found out where i can't say it as myself like i'm sure you're an adult now so by then to just act like lead and we'll forget about your childhood which is within the past where bowen's did you ever do anything much certain city your i did groundlings it was an impromptu that is that in yeah that's an improv sketch comedy you stand on stage in new orleans goes on something yeah yeah that's what i did. next we discuss. another project of the ever present please don't. give it possible to navigate economy with all the details such as dickson

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i was a new alert animation scripts scare me a little bit. lately. there is breaking news tonight and they are continuing to follow the breaking news media player alexander's family cry tears of your wife at your grave things other than their. own regard and a court of law on the ground allowed there's a story made for a movie is playing out in real life. we're back with lisa kudrow we're here in los angeles. where both of us reside a little bit you had an unusual career trajectory in biology major no producer you're a biology major advisor right yeah why biology okas i was fascinated first i was going to you know follow my father and my brother is in medical school and become

a doctor and then i realized i didn't want to be a physician really but i still loved evolutionary biology so i was going to i still i stayed with it i was planning on going to graduate school and you enjoyed setting for all of this no no no i don't like the dissection part i mean i did i had a great project i had to castrate rats just for the projects i did i got good at that felt when it went to the acting bug it so i mean when i was little and in junior high i like writing sketches and do here in l.a. yeah. but i put it all away for for high school and college and then after i graduated it just hit me that you have no responsibilities zero you know no mortgage kids now's the time to try something like that so when you say i'm going to try it where did you go and what did you do well my brother's best friend is john levitz and so he was on saturday night live and and i said i think i need to

try this and he was so that's great he was really happy and said go to the groundlings you have to go to the groundlings so you have a natural affinity for comedy yeah i thought you know i probably couldn't handle like a real acting class that might be too serious and so i yeah and i thought maybe comedy would be the thing to do then but comedic actors usually do well when they play serious parts somebody is harder comedy is harder i'm here to say now i have done a couple of dramatic roles and comedy is definitely harder tell me about who you think you are already doing that so vastly is a is on the b.b.c. right right and star on b.b.c. . and then i was at work so you take a well known person and you trace their genealogy and then you find you know the different points of history that are interesting and that you can have find documents to support a story and there's always a story every family has

a story or two so how do you how does it work how do you find the person you trace you're going to trip well i mean we have people coming to us now who are interested in doing it and then we meet with them and find out what are you interested in knowing sometimes they don't know anything at all and whenever you find out be happy with and sometimes there's a family rumor about something you know or it's a little story we used to my wife is mormon and the mormon church as a gift to be yeah i did my genealogy they got me back to great grandfather i saw the boat they came on yes terence yeah all the passengers who were on the boat pictures of the boat yeah that in that sense my grandfather yeah it's hard i mean just what he what he is what he is to kittredge well you can have census records so and then you have those passenger lists so i mean for like eastern america for

eastern european jews it's difficult because of the holocaust and the records were mostly held in the synagogues and those were destroyed for the most part so there are no records at all but but sometimes you can find like with gwyneth paltrow we were able to go back because they were well known rabbis in her family really and aha and one of them was and was a rabbi of like jewish mysticism even you know so that was that was pretty cool the ever come close to things that are embarrassing. if your grandfather was a murderer but we left actually because they heard my grandfather worked for meyer lansky so that's hard to verify. you know i didn't direct this method to keep mel good archives no good mob archives but now but with this season though we actually we have people like trisha yearwood where we have a document. of her ancestor from like three hundred years ago really or more

and he's on his way to his criminal accused criminal and the his companion actually wrote about what they were talking about we have his thoughts and feelings about what he was about to face you know who gets that that was unbelievable and is that show working will oh yeah it's a great it's a great show you're personalizing history you know i mean you trace is true of that so you are we have to hold you to i have one boy he's fifteen fourteen and thirteen oh fun to see tech. yeah if that's what we do know right well yeah i mean when i say he's like i'm not answering so i want to call the house like oh that's i don't want to bother anybody that's two hundred fans on the phone but what happened to the phone it feels intrusive to them it's like you're going to make a noise in the house you're going to bother everybody and what if the parent sample . they get no inflection i know everything's like has

a going. but how does he deal with your fame. you know he's he's glad it's there as it serves him. you know how your kids are i mean yeah they though i was not spoiled they're not affected by it and sometimes they don't like it right well yes a lot of times i mean sometimes he wonders you know is she being nice to me because they're my mom and i know they got they don't want to know i'll go to a dodger game and also you want to go on the field you know and have a home you have to go see you know it's ok that's not ok yes the comeback was a dock a kind of a mock documentary series united yeah only lasted a year but now other shows are coming back arrested development these are what about the combat coming back now that would be great but what happened to it well

i don't i don't i'm not i'm but an on line that's interesting you know it's also up to michael patrick king we created the show together so he's actually pretty busy as he's doing it too broke or else you know on c.b.s. but week every time we get together we talk about like so well of valerie cherish says the character well it should be doing right now and. you know when we certainly have ideas that's for sure so i think yeah we need to talk about it more and see what we can do over couple of social media questions eighty three to two on instagram wants to know what do you enjoy doing more film or television. well they're both good. i think they're both good i think there's a lot of great roles and on t.v. though for women to do what you do or d.v.d. movies yeah i guess i do yeah you know i mean movies are always out of town for such a long time so which you don't like and that you know. and meghan wall raven on twitter

wants to know who came up with the lyrics for smellie kept the song on friends that their writers the very clever writers guy came up with the tune i came up with all the tunes for the duties do you like. producing as much as working on camera i like acting i like performing i like that more but i like producing who do you think you are just because it's like this fantastic history lesson i really do i love every stage of producing that show what kind of roles do you are you pitched. actually you know not so much just see not really oh yeah that's a famous doing that i know so that i mean also i'm older so you know who wants to see that you know that old thank you you look terrific things all right topknot photography on instagram what was was has been your biggest splurge my biggest

splurge why i think we should get a little money but if you did you ever buy something while. well i mean i have to say my biggest splurge is when i travel. so it's first class. not a baggage no i'm not there i haven't done that lately i have been so you shop. shopping i'm not a big shopper so what's this but i know what the travel to be about so you know it's expensive and travel for his actions as a changed my husband and i are very i don't know what it is but we're just like. that's kind of gross to spend on that that's not easy to do he's finance you. with nine to five yeah yeah both of us are now the end of the show we call we be in the marshall we call if you only knew just a couple quick listen the first boy you kissed i remember what was his name robbie we were in middle school or middle school yeah it was two thirds air or one of

those games oh yeah oh then that's not his name denis then someone else you forgot to remember what happened to dennis i don't know if you have a favorite friends of the sewed oh. i don't know too many there's a two hundred forty and you have a talent we don't know about. no. funniest person you know. funniest person i know cracks you up. god well conan o'brien yeah i would he's way up there in the list just because he's so clever you know is there a curse word you overuse. that that's. what scares you. what scares me ok scary movies be to sky tape i can't do it i hate being scared cycloid could do the show for three

weeks oh really such as i was saying yeah yeah now i made the mistake of sings the movie seven in the resource of i'm ok i mean i can if i think about it before i go to bed i can't sleep the trouble with them is they're manipulating you yes you climbing up the stairs of the bag and so no i guess out of the director that's right because he's out to air out her mate costar you learn the most from oh really wow oh there's a lot of them though i have to say oh which one the friends thing started which of that cares that the most experience courtney courtney cox i know because that's what i wanted to say like my major because we were together for so long and she's very helpful to you yes i think for all of us she kind of cept the tone because we were first started she said listen you know i mean we all got to help each other here you know like if you think of there's a funny way for me to do something let me know you know anything i think of like we've got to let each other know help each other ok and do thread do friends remain

friends yes. yes we do you are your parents proud of what you've accomplished they want you to get into this see the business stay at your brothers that are your brothers a lawyer right my brother is a doctor dr yeah and you know when i told them so i'm going to try acting as they almost died from happiness. like thank god because you are just going to have you know to i to i took myself so seriously that they found great if it's unlike me up maybe then she has been thanks lisa thank you lisa good girl great having you with us star for years on friends we have web sarah p. we have who do you think you are please having her with us as we said good girl and we'll see you next time and don't forget to follow me on kings things on twitter.

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radio guy and for a minute. i want to close the budget because you've never seen anything like this i'm telling. you. what's going on guys i mean martin and this is breaking the set the summer iraq so it's two deadliest months since the height of u.s. occupation that the country seems more unstable now than ever before just yesterday i woke up to the tragic news of yet another wave of bombings that killed at least twenty thousand people it's clear that iraq is on the verge of a full blown civil war at this point because by the violence plaguing the nation the pentagon has just announced a new arms sale to iraq to the tune of two point seven billion dollars stockpiled include six hundred eighty one and aircraft missiles forty missile launchers three

anti-aircraft batteries as well as two hundred sixteen a hawk missiles now like me you might be wondering why the pentagon wants to sell billions of dollars worth of weapons to a country on the verge of collapse all sorts. make a little bit more sense when you consider how the u.s. is seizing on iraq's instability for its end goal in syria see right now you're wrong is able to fly over iraqi air space to give weapons and aid to the assad regime and according to the pentagon this latest weapons order could secure a no fly zone over iraq limiting the shipments of weapons from iran is it just me or does dumping weapons into a completely destabilize country sound like a terrible idea then really how much more can the people of iraq even take just two decades ago we rock incurred harsh economic sanctions resulted in the deaths of a half a million iraqi children and following that a decade of brutal u.s. military occupation which caused the country to deteriorate.